Newly diagnosed

Hi, my bf was having pain in the lower right of his abdomen, it is a constant pain with more sharp pain when he move certain way or eat, or sometime with no apparent reason.

He went to his primary, who sent him to the ER with appendicitis suspicion.

There they did some blood test and some imagery test. They said that he had a lot of inflammation in the colon and that there was a diverticulitis.

The ER doctor called the Gastroenterology to be sure because they weren't sure of their diagnosis. Specialist told them to treat it like a diverticulitis that it was likely to be that.

The issue is, that the ER doctor asked if there was cancer in his family. My bf is only 30 years old, though he is obese and don't eat very well , but the ER Doctor said he was too young to have diverticulitis.

We are now waiting for a coloscopy to be sure it's nothing more.

Let's say I'm very stressed about that, and we have a new Born at home my son is only 9 days old .

I would like to hear your story of those who were diagnosed young.